New Video: Future Ethernet Speeds

Will the development of higher-speed Ethernet specifications lead to new, lower-speed Ethernet specs as well? Will we be seeing 25G and 50G Ethernet? John D'Ambrosia, Chairman of the Ethernet Alliance and Chief Ethernet Evangelist at Dell, says the discussion of these topics is underway, but consensus needs to be built.  There are good reasons to develop high density technologies for high performance specifications. There are ramifications...

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Broadcom Debuts New Ethernet Switching Silicon

Broadcom introduced a new family of 10 Gigabit multiport Ethernet switches in its StrataConnect portfolio.  The new designs improve control plane and data plane connectivity by combining 1G, 2.5G, and 10G performance and diverse and flexible input/outputs (I/Os) at very low power consumption. The new BCM534xx StrataConnect switch chips boast 160 Gbps total bandwidth, and 10 GbE I/O that can be flexibly configured.  The devices can be...

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Juniper and Aruba Enter Strategic Partnership

Juniper Networks and Aruba Networks entered into a strategic alliance to deliver open, converged wired and wireless network solutions. As part of this effort, Aruba will be able to leverage Juniper's programmable silicon and new programmable application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable higher value functions in enterprise networks.  The companies said their partnership will bring product-level integration that leverages open protocols...

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Ericsson: Mobile Subscriptions up 7% YoY in 1Q2014

Ericsson calculates that the number of mobile subscriptions worldwide grew approximately 7 percent year-on-year during Q1 2014, with the most new additions coming in APAC nations. The number of mobile broadband subscriptions grew even faster over this period – at a rate of 35 percent year-on-year, reaching 2.3 billion. According to Ericsson's new published Mobility Report, while the number of smartphones entering the market continues to soar and...

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SiTime Brings MEMS Timing to Wearables

SiTime introduced the smallest, lowest power 32 kHz TCXO (temperature compensated oscillator) designed for the emerging market of wearable electronics and Internet of Things (IoT). The new, 32 kHz TCXO (temperature compensated oscillator) device, which leverages SiTime's MEMS technology, comes in a 1.5 x 0.8 mm chip scale package (CSP). It can perform various functions in a system included delivering reference for real time clock (RTC) function,...

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Intel Rolls Out Solid-State Drives for PCIe

Intel announced a new family of Solid-State Drives (SSD) for PCIe and aimed at data centers. Thew new drives boast substantial performance gains over SATA SSDs and traditional hard disk drives -- Intel claims up to six times faster data transfer speed than 6 Gbps SAS/SATA SSDs. Specifically, the Intel Solid-State Drive Data Center P3700 Series (460K IOPS), can replace the performance of 7 SATA SSDs aggregated through a host bus adapter (HBA) (approximately...

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Lantiq and Intel Show LTE Cat6 Gateway Platform

Lantiq and Intel announced a joint reference platform for fixed LTE Broadband Router designs. The co-developed reference platform combines the Intel XMM 7260 LTE communications platform with Lantiq’s GRX330 Communications Processor. Key features: An Intel designed M.2 module based on the Intel XMM 7260 platform delivers LTE-Advanced features  including flexible carrier aggregation - up to 40Mhz with support for up to 23 CA combinations...

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